Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...

This rare event has opened up new avenues for studying the mechanics of black holes, offering insights into their ...

A supermassive black hole produced a rare double-flash TDE, consuming a star and hinting at another flare in 2026 ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

This illustration shows a binary black hole at the centre of the quasar Markarian 231, outshining billions of stars. This image shows a possible seed for a supermassive black hole. Two seeds were ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and ...

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...